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Battleship Roma Found

June 28, 2012 12:29
In the Gulf of Asinara was finally identified a portion of the wreck of the battleship Roma , situated about 1000 meters deep and about 16 miles off the coast of Sardinia. The first and exclusive pictures of the wreck were taken from 'Engineer Guido Gay Gaymarine Srl company owner who for many years of conducting trials in the area of innovative underwater exploration equipment he designed and built. With the help of a sophisticated underwater robot Pluto ball, and other exclusive instruments placed on board the catamaran Daedalus owned by the same engineer, the site where the wreck of the Battleship Rroma were identified and visited.
The staff of the Navy, aboard the Daedalus for the occasion at the invitation of the engineer Gay, our countryman, has unequivocally verified the consistency of images, taken for the first time on 17 giugno2012 and repeated June 28, 2012, spare aircraft guns boarded the battleship Roma.

69 years after the sinking it was possible to assign the correct position to what the Navy considers one of the most important shrines of the sea, the battleship Roma was sunk on September 9, 1943 by a German plane and the sailors who died in 1352, together the commander of the naval forces of the Royal Navy battleship, the Admiral Carlo Bergamini . Were only 622 survivors.

IN the days of lace-ruffles, perukes and brocade
Brown Bess was a partner whom none could despise
An out-spoken, flinty-lipped, brazen-faced jade,
With a habit of looking men straight in the eyes
At Blenheim and Ramillies fops would confess
They were pierced to the heart by the charms of Brown Bess.